alt Hacker NewsI've been building the most advanced automotive diagnostic app on the market
I used to be a mechanic, and spend a lot of my free time working on project vehicles, motorcycles, tractors, trucks etc. I wanted a tool to track the tasks I needed done, then a way to easily access VIN info for parts search, then I DMV records, and finally built an iphone app to scan the OBD2 diagnostic codes and hook them up to a custom ai diagnostic prompt.
It's been a blast to work on, I need to focus on marketing it and get some users that aren't close friends, but it's been serving my purposes this summer so far.
I've seen nothing with anywhere close to this depth of diagnostic reporting.
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I wish Apple exposed serial on iOS so that we could just use any generic USB - OBD2 cable on iPhones
It looks really impressive. Well done. Wishing you luck with it.
Does it have any make-specific features? For instance, I've used vcds for VW/Audi since it has better reporting than generic odb2 code readers.
Looks great, I would like to try it out. Can you recommend any OBD2 adapter? I’m driving a Ford from 2019.
Nice one! Is the iPad app a full fledged iPadOS app or just a browser for now?
Very cool indeed. Make it really easy also for non mech people to diagnose and get an idea on a problem while having only an OBD2 adapter. How are the reparations prices calculated? Is there some kind of dataset you builder or is it just a guide prompt to an LLM?